2015 Worldwide Vegan Charity Bake Sale Report 烘培義賣活動報告

Taipei’s first foray into the Worldwide Vegan Bake Sale was a smashing success, exceeding all expectations, raising $126,906 NT / $4,111 USD in total sales and donations. The proceeds will be split evenly and go onto benefit Animals Taiwan and Bright Side Projects so they will be able to engage in more good deeds at the local community level. Thanks to all who lined up despite the rain! (Scroll below for more info and images)

This was a simple bake sale idea that would have the help of a few home bakers that snowballed into something very large. We were very fortunate to have the use of free space of a rain covered venue thanks to Grandma Nitti’s, who have continuously been a strong supporter for Animals Taiwan in the past. Fresh Bakery & Café also allotted us the use of their bakery and ovens on numerous days. Both places generously contributed to fulfilling many items on our ingredients list so that the items we baked and sold could be affordable to many. We were very fortunate to have some of Taipei’s top vegan eateries sponsor their gourmet-baked items, and also home bakers who are vegan or decided to give dairy and egg free baking a shot. Approximately 35% of our sales were thanks to these wonderful plant-based items from supporters who took the time to bake and have their masterpieces featured at our event.

We were stunned at the support and interest from the local Taiwanese community in the baked vegan goods. The world is a little bit brighter thanks to all of you.As we have mentioned earlier, this is the first time to organize a bake sale so we are so grateful for your support and understanding in any small discrepancies or misunderstandings that might have occurred. It was really hard work but we know that you agree with us despite it all, for the sake of being able to support charities with wonderful causes, it was worth it. If there is a next event, we will do better.

The amount of time taking into coordinating the event and obtaining ingredients, website creation, poster design, raffles, fundraising, sponsorship, deliveries, sourcing non-plastic packaging, and promotion that ranged from radio, print, to television, and if there is a next time we would love for some people to get involved in the facilitation that have project management experience. We also need passionate bakers that stress on high quality goods with the ability and time to turnover a high output of quality baked goods under a very short amount of time.

You can contact us or sign up at https://goo.gl/r1VStc for notifications about our future bake sale and other vegan related affairs at http://veganaffair.tw If I happened to miss crediting anyone, please do contact me at veganaffair.tw@gmail.com and accept my apologies in advance! For more images please check: https://goo.gl/FFpoI5

Thanks to Paula Perry and Josette Penzel for going above and beyond to bake after the 5/24 sale so we could fulfill our remaining pre-orders. The highest complimented items that include the macadamia brownies and banana breads were created by these two amazing people! Josette was also the one who mentioned the Worldwide Vegan Bake Sale. Without her, we would have never started!

SUPPORTERS & VOLUNTEERS 支持者及志工

Special thanks to Sara Chien and Jed Chen for taking several days to assist with logistics in ingredients, pre-orders, pickups, packing, sourcing packaging, setting up and cleaning of the venue after the event. Long time supporters Rufen Cheng, Sophie Hsu, August Armbrister, Mohan Huang, and our trusty photographer Starry Cheng. Credit to Yoshi Zon for his images and set up of event. LongLong for usages of her bakery graphics, including the sad cookie. Banner credit Grace Hsu. Also those who believed in us from the onset and sent in their pre-orders, especially the biggest orders from long time Bright Side Projects supporters and founding members Yuting Hung, Tina Chen, and Eliza Wang.

Thanks to all our volunteers (Nadine 林政妤, 張桂綿, 蔡依玲, Jennifer Lin, Catana, Ariel Shan, 汪劭純) who came for baking and packing the night before and all those who showed up at the event and tried to help the best they could!

Donations from the following either for ingredients, or that went to the event itself: August Armbrister, Tara Cameron, Sue Hollow, Lilian Lim, Anonymous (JY), 31Heaven Bakery Square 友善小烘坊, Fresh Bakery & Café, Grandma Nitti’s Kitchen, A Well Fed World.

Grateful for the backing of A Well-Fed World for covering the expenses for portion of our ingredients, as well as promotional collateral so that more people could know about the vegan event. We had a great write-up in the Taipei Times as well by Dana Ter!